Prepare, Promote, Participate: Tips to keep students reading during school breaks
By: Gabby Cregan, Instructional Designer PREPARE Prepare your school community to continue reading with Sora during school breaks. Make sure all students & staff can sign into Sora with their school credentials. Remind students that they can download Sora to their personal devices, or access…
5 essential tips to support student reading success with Sora reports & data
By: Gabby Cregan, Instructional Designer Whether your school year is almost over or it’s just begun, OverDrive Marketplace has reading data and insights to help you better understand how, when, why, and how much your students are using Sora. We asked your OverDrive Account team…
3 ways to read for free in Sora this spring & summer
Summer is on its way to the Northern Hemisphere! For many of us, that might mean warm sunny days, Saturdays on the beach and – best of all – vacation. For your students, it’s an exciting, busy time during which literacy-building habits like reading might…
Save more and spend less on spring & summer reads in Sora
This spring and summer, you can get your Sora collection vacation-ready for less with discounts on audiobooks, children’s books and more. Save on audiobooks for all ages Did you hear the news? From now until June 30, you can save on 50,000+ titles from all…
Save the Date: Sora Sweet Reads Returns May 15, 2023
Sora Sweet Reads is back! Learn more about this year’s program. By: Emily Balser, Integrated Marketing Specialist Can you hear that? If you listen closely enough, you can almost hear the music of the not-so-far-off ice cream truck as it trundles down the street this…
Steve Jobs Archive’s “Make Something Wonderful” now available free to schools
What does it mean to make something wonderful? Likely the best answer is that it depends on who you ask. In Make Something Wonderful, a curated collection of Steve Jobs’ speeches, interviews and correspondence, readers will get an unparalleled window into how one of the…
Key ways to improve the U.S. education system [Authority Magazine interview]
If you had the chance, what would you do to improve the U.S. education system? It’s a complicated question, with equally complicated answers – but in a recent interview with Yitzi Weiner from Authority Magazine, OverDrive Education General Manager Angela Arnold distilled down some of…
Ending soon – enter the School Stars contest today!
Since February, we’ve been collecting your entries for the School Stars contest. So far, we’ve seen so many awesome submissions, from amazing bulletin board displays, to memes, to videos and more! Your entries are creative, funny, heart-warming, and inspiring. We love getting a glimpse into…
Discover ALA Youth Media Award 2023 winners in Sora
Earlier this year, the American Library Association Youth Media Awards announced their picks for the best books for children and teens published in 2022. Did you know that you can easily browse and purchase these titles – including Newbery Medal-winning titles like Freewater – for…
In one CO district, a digital library offers valuable opportunities for differentiation [Sora Spotlight]
By: Kristen Hein, Account Manager In our recurring Sora Spotlight series, we feature a wide range of educators who’ve become Sora champions at their school, impressing us with their innovative methods for implementing the reading app and engaging with their students. Here, we ask them…
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